Global soundtracks
Subtitle: worlds of film music
By: Mark Slobin, editor.
Contributors: Slobin, Mark.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780819568816; 9780819568823
Subjects: Motion picture music -- History and criticism
Description: This collection of essays analyzes the music of films from China, India, Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the US, and includes a variety of key films, periods, and studio practices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American worlds. The Steiner superculture ; The superculture beyond Steiner ; Subcultural filmways / Mark Slobin; title: Global film musics. That Bollywood sound / Greg Booth ; Tamil film music : sound and significance / Joseph Getter and B. Balasubrahmaniyan ; The influence of Hindi film music on Hausa videofilm soundtrack music / Abdalla Uba Adamu ; Reflexive cinema : reflecting on and representing the worlds of Chinese film and music / Sue M.C. Tuohy ; Music in Indonesian "historical" films :   reading Nopember 1828 /  Sumarsam ; "The soul has no color" but the skin does :   Angelitos negros and the uses of blackface on the Mexican silver screen, ca. 1950 /   Marilyn Miller ; Baianas, malandros, and samba : listening to Brazil through Donald Duck's ears /   Eric A. Galm ; Diversity and orality in Euzhan Palcy's La Rue Cases-Nègres / Brenda F. Berrian ; Listening to Abd al-Halim Hafiz / Martin Stokes; title: Comparative vistas / Mark Slobin.